EDITOR'S OPINION

Yes folks at last I can finally do a Voice Compare on the known Ken Masters, the more jovial of the two original "Shotos" of Fighting games.

We shall start this off with one of my favorite VAs namely Scott McNeil whom voiced Ken in the American Street Fighter Animated series. I know that the show is not exactly a fan favorite but while it did have its fair share of supporters it of course had its fair share of detractors as well but I always did have a soft spot for this performance.

(But then again this is the first time I remembered on how I was able to pleasantly recognize a voice as back then in the late 90's when I was watching the show I recognized the fact that Ken sounded like Proto Man from the American Mega Man series. And not too long afterwards when I started to get into using the Internet and learn more about Voice talent I soon saw why among various other things.)

But still I've always did enjoyed Scott McNeil's handiwork as Ken as it did fit Ken's rather playful personality (that can go serious when the situation calls for it as well.)
And unlike his more serious White Gi Wearing Japanese counterpart Ryu, Ken had different English VAs throughout each of his Anime appearances.

In the highly renowned Fan Favorite film Street Fighter 2 the Animated Movie he was voiced by VA Eddie Frierson. I admit in retrospection this was a bit of a surprise but fortunately it turns out he was a rather suitable choice for the role as he too was able to capture more of his playful and serious sides well.

And for his other English Anime Dub VA's we will be seeing a trio of Steves here.

The first Steve we will mention here is VA Steve Apostolina (whom I heard is his actual name since he like many other Californian VAs have a history of using aliases). And well to be blunt this Steve's Ken was one of the better performances in II V's American English dub as he too does a good job at capturing Ken's persona well.

And for the next Steve which is easily the most known of the 3 Steves here is Steve Blum as Ken in the Street Fighter Alpha the Movie. Steve Blum was definitely a good choice that was definitely fitting Ken well and was one of the better performances in that movie.

The 3rd Steve is VA Steve "Tetsuzaemon Iba" Cassling in Street Fighter Alpha Generations and well this one is not as good as the others. I am not calling Steve Cassling a bad VA and his work here is not really bad but it seemed kind of off at first compared to the others here. (But to be fair Ken had a relatively small serious role in that movie didn't help either.)

And last but certainly not the least is his current VA Reuben "Current Dante" Langdon whom voiced him in the Street Fighter 4 game and anime. And alike most of the aforementioned VAs here Reuben was a definite natural in this role as well.

Overall I think all of them (except for Steve Cassling) were rather good for the role.

@Starscreamsfan Lawl Apostolina is top three now?(he's my vote), I thought he did a good blend of youthfulness goofiness and seriousness, I know everyone else hates Cassling but it could be the material he's saddled with there were some point I know he could do better, Eddie Frierson was too over the top goofy for my side in a more serious material, Scott I can understand since the cartoon was pretty goofy to start with but not so much with Eddie

McNeil is great as Ken. He definetly sounds like the arrogant black sheep of the Street Fighters. And the clip is taken from one of the best Ken and Ryu episodes. That being said, I also tend to like Steve Blum, mainly due to the cool attitude in which he plays Ken on that clip.

I think Reuben is most like the character, even if it's basically his Dante voice. Scott McNeil and Steve Blum are runner-ups; I particularly like how different their Kens were in comparison to their other character voices, I probably would've never guessed either of those clips were them in the first place! Eddie Frierson was pretty good too, if a bit too chappy and smart-alecky. The other two Steves weren't quite miscast, but they could've been a LOT better.